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Roaming Profile Compatibility - The Windows 7 to Windows 8 Challenge
[Editor's note: Everything Mark mentions for Windows 8 clients here is also true for Windows 8.1 clients. Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 clients use the same (v3) profile version, so the 8.1 upgrade will...
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Drive up networking performance for your most demanding workloads with...
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Virtual RSS and...
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Hyper-V Extensible Switch Enhancements in Windows Server 2012 R2
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Hyper-V...
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New Networking Diagnostics with PowerShell in Windows Server R2
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers new diagnostic...
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Software Defined Networking (SDN): Double-Clicking into our Point of View
A couple of weeks ago we spoke about our approach to Software Defined Networking (SDN) - an approach that is open and extensible, driven by experience and most importantly, one that lets you leverage...
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What’s New in 2012 R2: IaaS Innovations
Part 5 of a 9-part series. Today’s post has two sections; the second half will post tomorrow.One of the industry metrics that I follow closely every quarter is the sale of x86 servers around the...
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Welcome to the Security Track
Welcome to the Security Track of the Building Clouds Blog. This is a new track on the Building Clouds Blog that we’ll use to post a variety of content relating to Security as well as Identity and...
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What's New in 2012 R2: Microsoft IaaS Investments and Innovations
The move to a service provider model is one of the most significant shifts we are seeing in data centers around the world. This is occurring as two key developments are afoot: First, many...
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Are you prepared for the BlueHat Challenge?
Today we are kicking off a new challenge so you can showcase your security prowess and, if we can, help you build some more. Our BlueHat Challenge is a series of computer security questions, which...
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DFS Replication in Windows Server 2012 R2 and other goodies, now available on...
Over at the Filecab blog, AskDS alum and all-around nice guy Ned Pyle has posted the first of several blogs about new features coming your way in Windows Server 2012 R2. If you're a DFS administrator...
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Updated Links on Windows Server 2012 R2 File Server and SMB 3.0
In this post, I'm providing a reference to the most relevant content related to Windows Server 2012 R2 that is related to the File Server, the SMB 3.0 features and its associated scenarios like Hyper-V...
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Cloud OS Video Series 3–VMware Integration
The Cloud OS Video series is a collection of videos that help you understand the technology, deployment, and management of the Cloud OS leveraging Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1.Each...
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System Center Advisor now analyzes System Center Virtual Machine Manager’s...
In August, System Center Advisor welcomes System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager as a monitored workload.If you have Virtual Machine Manager servers in your environment, look for new alerts...
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Using Server Inventory Reports to Help Stay Compliant with Service Provider...
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Service...
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Creating Usage Analytics Reports using Excel
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Service...
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How to Integrate Your Billing System with the Usage Metering System
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Service Provider...
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How to Create a Basic Plan Using the Service Administration Portal
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Service...
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What’s New in 2012 R2: Service Provider & Tenant IaaS Experience
Part 5 of a 9-part series. Today’s post is the 2nd of two sections; to read the first half, click here. I recently had an opportunity to speak with a number of leaders from the former VMWare User...
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What's New in 2012 R2: Going Deep on the Microsoft IaaS Service Provider and...
Yesterday Microsoft VP Brad Anderson and Erin Chapple detailed some key Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) scenarios for a High Performance Storage Fabric, Scalable Storage on Commodity Hardware, and...
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Cireson Asset Management vNext
Cireson, one of our leading partners in the industry announces a newly released version of the System Center Service Manager plug-in Asset Management. Many consider Cireson’s Asset Management solution...
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